ValueTree::fromXml() and textElements

General JUCE discussion
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I noticed that using ValueTree::fromXml(myXmlElement) seems to have some issues if myXmlElement contains a TextElement :

ScopedPointer <XmlElement> state(new XmlElement("drumsetState"));
state->addTextElement("test");
ValueTree testTree(ValueTree::fromXml(*state));

The above code causes an assertion error:
JUCE Assertion failure in /Users/aaronleese/juce/amalgamation/…/src/containers/juce_Identifier.cpp, line 61

Because the code wants a TagName to exist on the child textElement.

There are plenty of workarounds, of course, but it wouldn’t be bad to have some way to support textElements in ValueTree’s either.

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The ValueTree isn’t designed for parsing random XML - I think I made that pretty clear in the docs for ValueTree::fromXML(). They can save and reload their state as XML, but that’s very different from being able to load any XML file as a ValueTree.

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ah, fair enough.

I’m rewriting a bunch of save functions, and finding different ways to do it. Nice to have a bunch of options, and love the ValueTree class … so trying to use it a bunch but for the right things. Thanks.